Mexican Immigration After Ww2 Essay

During the post-World War II era, Eastern Europe fell to communism and many under developed countries became governed by Communist regimes. Back in Russia, this created a new wave of fascism and anti-Semitism that forced thousands of Jews to flee to the United States. They sold their property and came to America with the hope that this new place would represent an opportunity to begin again. The experience of immigrants after World War II was similar to those who came in the nineteenth century in terms of racial discrimination, and for the refugees who didn’t chose to come to America, adapting to a new culture became confusing. In the case of the Irish, they fled to the United States in the late 1900s to find employment, both as professionals and illegal aliens who worked in the lowest-paying jobs. Just like they had been put in the same social class as blacks when they came to America as indentured servants, the Irish now joined Mexican immigrants in their struggle against nativist attitudes towards their illegal immigration status. However, in the end their position was better than the Mexican population because of their color of skin. Mexicans, on the other hand, …show more content…
This latter group didn’t choose to come to America, but the American dream for them meant fleeing from missile bombardments and death. Takaki includes in this chapter the story of many of those who had to leave homelands without a choice. One of the woman said, “We were scared. What was this thing called America? We asked ourselves…But we were lucky. We escaped. We were safe.” Although America became the home of millions of immigrants who came from all over the world, this chapter shows the persistence of White nativism and the mistreatment of immigrants of